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Shipwrecked by Belief: A Gnostic Story

Shipwrecked by Belief: A Gnostic Story

When my early life as a fundamentalist minister came to an abrupt and traumatic end, I surveyed what could be salvaged from the general shipwreck of disappointment. A few valuables could be gathered up, for sure; but that old ship would never sail again. Disappointment is an understatement. What is left to believe in when belief itself has betrayed you? We are held captive by belief (ideology, narrative, meme). Manipulation of belief is the basis of mind control, a clear pathway to dystopia.

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Gnosis 01: Adrian Charles Smith – A Prison For The Mind

Gnosis 01: Adrian Charles Smith – A Prison For The Mind

Adrian Charles Smith joins Gnosis for our inaugural episode to discuss the nature of law, of reality and of the archons throughout human history. The sovereignty of our species hangs in the balance as the forces of the great reset are being exposed by those of the great awakening.

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What is Gnosticism (to me)? – Adrian Charles Smith

What is Gnosticism (to me)? – Adrian Charles Smith

The standard definition of fundamentalism includes strict adherence to inflexible doctrines, either religious or secular. Such doctrines are variable and transitory, being in the nature of opinions, theories, or  propositions, improperly elevated to the status of absolute truth by a priestly caste which benefits in status and power.  Where there is knowledge (of the propositional kind), it will pass away. All truth claims eventually fail.  In my book I often refer to the Wizard, the founder of our church/cult, who had his own definite ideas about what constituted “wholesome entertainment”, and this was taken as absolute truth by we impressionable students. No one dared say, “I disagree with him about that” or, “that’s just his opinion”. In Sedona Arizona, I discovered a psychiatrist with a huge following, highly regarded by various New Age authors, who claimed to have discovered an avenue to the absolute truth on any subject using a technique called muscle testing. But all his “discoveries” sounded more like his own generational worldview. This seemed to be an updated, re-packaged and highly innovative repetition of the same old story.

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